Avaliação de emuladores para o ensino de Redes de Computadores

Abstract

The network emulation is a useful aproach for the study and performance evaluation of technical applications. The use of network emulators has fundamental importance for new research, development of new network protocols, performance analysis of a network process, but also in developing new technologies. This work has as main purpose to introduce this technique in the teaching of computer networks and evaluate emulators for use in teaching. This paper focuses on three freely available emulators: Core, Netkit and Mininet. We evaluate its features and differences, discuss some metrics to provide a broad overview of the different tools for network emulation.